Harold Tomlinson (1899–1951) was a 20th-century British architect. Tomlinson was based at the

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School of

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. There he supervised the Scottish architect Frank James Connell. The current

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used by the

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in Park Street, central

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, was designed by Harold Tomlinson and W.P. Dyson. It reopened in 1935 after a fire that destroyed the original building in 1933. Tomlinson also designed the main building for

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south of Newmarket Road on the eastern edge of the city.Newmarket Road: Cambridge AirportCambridge 2000
This was constructed during 1936–37 and the airport opened in 1938.

Bibliography

* Harold Tomlinson, "Towards a New Architecture." In Irena Murray and Julian Osley (editors), ''

Le Corbusier Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 188727 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier ( , , ), was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture. He was ...

and Britain: An Anthology''.

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, 2008. .

References

1899 births 1951 deaths Architects from Cambridgeshire Academics of the University of Cambridge {{UK-architect-stub